Need compression class

[aewarnick]

I have an cab embedded recource that I want to use from my program that writes to the win\Temp folder. I can write the cab file to disk but cannot unzip it programatically and I couldn't find any classes or methods to unzip files and to zip files.

 

Does anyone know of any good compression classes?

[aewarnick]

I looked on the internet but could not find any for free that zip and unzip cab files and zip files.

[Nerseus]

Have you tried this?

 

-nerseus

[aewarnick]

Yes but I did not see any where in the documentation about cab.

[aewarnick]

I think that cab is much better compression than zip.

[Nerseus]

Whoops, thought you just wanted zipping.

 

Try this link instead.

 

-Nerseus

[aewarnick]

Do I use it as a .net library dll. If so, I could not figure out how. It does not seem to be compatable.

 

But that does not look the case. I was really looking for a .net class I could use but I could probably figure out a way around this problem.

 

But it would really help a lot and be a lot better to have a class.

[beagle]

I am also looking for a utility to use from .NET to create cab files and unpack them. Does anyone have an answer to the last question in this thread, or know of a good utility to use with .NET. I have used TegoCab Active X control (from http://www.tegosoft.com) that I purchased for use with VB 6, but I don't believe the control works with .NET. I would appreciate any tips.

[CattleRustler]

if it is a com ax object then just reference it in your project from the COM tab and it will get wrapped in an INTEROP dll wrapper

COM objects are usable from .NET :)